181455 - Content of form lost when hitting back-button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140697

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Steinar Kaarø]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

After using http://wgate.bibsys.no/search/gen?lang=E to search, the content of
the form is lost when hitting the back-button.
This happens if the page has hidden parameters placed before the input fields,
and the form is in or is surrounding a table. If the hidden parameters are
placed after the input fields, it works. Also if all table tags are removed, it
works.
Opera and Explorer works.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://wgate.bibsys.no/search/gen?lang=E
2.Type "mozilla" in the "Free text" field.
3.Hit "Search"
4.Hit "Back"
5."mozilla" has disappeared.
Actual Results:  
Content of form has disappeared.

Expected Results:  
Showed the previous form content, in order to easily modify the the search.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1.0.1 is very old.  Is this a problem with current trunk builds?

Comment 2

[Steinar Kaarø]

1.2b has the problem as well.

Comment 3

[Patrick]

dupe of bug 179330 ?
Seeing this behavior as well, even though that particular bug has been fixed on
Nov 21. I'm using Moz 2002112208 on XP Pro SP1

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

the given URL does not have a search form.

Comment 5

[Steinar Kaarø]

Perfect timing. The site is down for maintenance until Nov. 25 0700 CET.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Confirmed using Mozilla 12/23 and Phoenix 12/27 (both trunk nightlies) on WinXP.
 A testcase would be nice.

Comment 7

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

form restoration. over to jkeiser. 

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: testcase

it looks like the hidden <input> before the <tr> is causing the problem here.

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "Misplaced form element and hidden input element(s) break form value
restoration when pressing Back"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140697 ***